Diagnosing the events that led up to RFK Jr and Dr Oz being put in charge of American healthcare. How did it get this bad?!
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References
Articles on RFK Jr
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2023/09/fall-covid-vaccine-update-cdc-recommendation/675304/
Dr Andrea Love on RFK Jr’s long anti-science background https://news.immunologic.org/p/rfk-jrs-brain-worm-plausible-but
2019 measles outbreak in Samoa: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/07/how-rfk-jr-falsely-denied-his-connection-to-a-deadly-measles-outbreak-in-samoa/
David Gorski RFK Jr. as HHS Secretary will be a catastrophe for public health and medical research - RESPECTFUL INSOLENCE https://www.respectfulinsolence.com/2024/11/15/rfk-jr-as-hhs-secretary-will-be-a-catastrophe-for-public-health-and-medical-research/
RFK Jr. wants to 'Make America Healthy Again.' He could face a lot of pushback https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/11/15/nx-s1-5191947/trump-rfk-health-hhs
Academic papers and journal editorials
Face masking for children - time to reconsider - Journal of Infection https://www.journalofinfection.com/article/S0163-4453(22)00549-7/fulltext
Face coverings have little utility for young school-aged children https://adc.bmj.com/content/108/2/77.long
Community transmission and viral load kinetics of the SARS-CoV-2 delta (B.1.617.2) variant in vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals in the UK: a prospective, longitudinal, cohort study - The Lancet Infectious Diseases https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(21)00648-4/fulltext
Effect of Covid-19 Vaccination on Transmission of Alpha and Delta Variants | New England Journal of Medicine https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2116597
Trump, health, science, and the next 4 years - The Lancet https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)02518-2/fulltext
The FDA and Moderna’s cosy relationship: how lax rules enable a revolving door culture | The BMJ https://www.bmj.com/content/383/bmj.p2486
FDA's revolving door: Companies often hire agency staffers who managed their successful drug reviews | Science https://www.science.org/content/article/fda-s-revolving-door-companies-often-hire-agency-staffers-who-managed-their-succ... [truncated]
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